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Can your cellphone’s GPS be used to estimate the speed that you were driving before an accident? Will your smart watch’s heartrate monitor be used against you in a criminal case? Welcome to the “Internet of Things” and the legal ramifications of the many devices that we use every day to track, analyze, and store personal data about who we are and what we do. . .
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Claiming that the placement of the statue, “Fearless Girl” has changed the message of his nearby sculpture “Charging Bull, artist Arturo Di Modica has enlisted his attorneys to enforce his artistic copyright.
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The recent dispute over the threatened exclusion of a gay veteran’s group from the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade reminds us of past controversies over the event that have landed in the courts.
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Since 1973, attorneys with questions about their responsibilities to clients and the Massachusetts legal system at large have looked to the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics for guidance. . .
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In a recent decision reported in the Boston Globe and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Concord District Court Judge Robert found major problems with the reliability of breath tests police administer to drunk drivers in the state. . .
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